Here we look at some of the false, misleading and unsupported claims the president has made about immigration in seven speeches over 12 days, from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Missoula, Montana.
Issues: Illegal immigration
FactChecking Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Interview
Trump’s Numbers October 2018 Update
Misleading Ad Targets O’Rourke for Border Comments
Unaccompanied Minors in Deportation Proceedings
Illegal Immigration Statistics
Is Illegal Immigration Linked to More or Less Crime?
President Donald Trump said it’s “not true” that immigrants in the U.S. illegally are “safer than the people that live in the country,” providing several crime statistics he claimed represented the “toll of illegal immigration.” Sen. Bernie Sanders made the opposite claim, saying: “I understand that the crime rate among undocumented people is actually lower than the general population.”